for all of the more infamous criticisms abt the game the worst thing for me is how it ends and what it shows about how swery thinks of deadly premonition. was expecting them to actually do /something/ with aisha, i really believe she had unexplored potential as a younger parallel to york that i was hoping, if nothing else, that they'd follow through on it. but they had to play it safe and make only york the one who really mattered at all.

i really couldve been a defender of this game in some sense (if we arent counting that most of the characters feel more like quirky tourist curiosities than people with human relationships to each other, i.e. anna's mother, becky and quint, nick and olivia from the first game) if it didnt feel like it was leading me on to not just seem like....fanfic for york. but as it is, i feel either like they ran out of steam bc of budget/time, or swery doesnt understand that dp was more than just banking on its protagonist, or both.